Daily Press
Todays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University

The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice

B.B. Blaber

The Guardian, 08.12.2025

A year after fall of Assad, a divided Syria struggles to escape cycle of violence

William Christou

Premier League football matches can be crime hotspots – but community sports centres have the opposite effect

Yijing Li, Rui Wang

Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?

Nick Lehr

Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds

Torkel Klingberg, Samson Nivins

Scientific American, 08.12.2025

What the US national security strategy tells us about how Trump views the world

Andrew Gawthorpe

The Guardian, 08.12.2025

Jeffrey Epstein’s most powerful ally was silence

Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky

EurekAlert!, 08.12.2025

New study charts how cartel violence increases risks for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border

University of California - Davis

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals

Dan Vergano

New Statesman, 08.12.2025

Syria’s fragile future

Cian Ward

Verfassungsblog, 08.12.2025

Automating International Human Rights Adjudication in Strasbourg and Beyond

Veronika Fikfak / Laurence R. Helfer

Verfassungsblog, 08.12.2025

Walking a Tightrope

Peter Van Elsuwege

The Conversation, 09.12.2025

Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that

Joel Scanlan

The Conversation, 09.12.2025

How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation’s poor

Robert Muggah

Newswise, 09.12.2025

Yale Study Assesses Sex Differences in Lethality Risk Screening Among IPV Victims

Yale School of Medicine

The Guardian, 09.12.2025

Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

Edward Siddons

The Conversation, 10.12.2025

‘Rage bait’ is the Oxford Word of the Year, showing how social media is manufacturing anger

Laurence Grondin-Robillard

Newswise, 10.12.2025

New Gamified Tool Helps Defend Satellite Supply Chains From Cyber Threats

University of South Australia

The Guardian, 10.12.2025

Half of people recently arrested by Met police may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds

Rachel Hall

The Conversation, 10.12.2025

From violence to sexism, the manosphere is doing real-world harm

Stephanie Wescott, Steven Roberts

The Conversation, 10.12.2025

Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela? His new security strategy provides some clues

Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, Shannon Brincat

EurekAlert!, 10.12.2025

UC Irvine professor wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize

University of California - Irvine

EurekAlert!, 10.12.2025

Gen Z views world as "scary place" with growing cynicism about ability to create change

Society for Risk Analysis

New Lines Magazine, 10.12.2025

Eswatini: The Toll of Trump’s African Deportation Agreements

Nick Alexandra

New York Times, 11.12.2025

More focus is needed on childhood sexual abuse to combat Australia’s suicide problem

Paul Wyles, Patrick O'Leary, Tracy Wilde

The Guardian, 11.12.2025

Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast

Tom Phillips

How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed

Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai

What does international law tell us about the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela?

Mark Chadwick

Donald Trump’s strikes against narcoterrorists are new but the logic behind them isn’t

Elisabeth Schweiger

What’s the safest way to walk home at night? We’ve created an AI-powered app that shows you

Ilya Ilyankou

Kidnapping for ransom in the Sahel: analysis of 24 years of data shows a new trend

Alexander M. Laskaris, Olivier Walther

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners AJGP Clinical Volume 54, 12.12.2025

Donald Trump’s national security strategy puts America first and leaves its allies to fend for themselves

Stefan Wolff, David Hastings Dunn

The Guardian, 11.12.2025

US lawmakers condemn seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker: ‘Trump is sleepwalking us into a war’

Joseph Gedeon

Coercive control: Recognising relational patterns that affect patient wellbeing

J. Lynch, J. Klieve-Longman, E. McLindon, P. Cullen, F. Giles, K. Hegarty

The Independent, 12.12.2025

Why is Trump going after Venezuela? His administration has so far floated these three reasons for its pressure campaign

Graig Graziosi

The Independent, 12.12.2025

Study reveals huge number of arrested people may have ADHD

Rebecca Whittaker

The Conversation, 12.12.2025

Did Donald Trump order piracy on the high seas?

Jonathan Este

New York Times, 13.12.2025

How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device?

Jeffrey Gettleman, Hari Kumar, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles

Verfassungsblog, 14.12.2025

Is the European Court of Justice a Protector of the Weak?

Tommaso Pavone, Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Louisa Boulaziz

Intervene or run and hide: what should you do during public violence like the attacks at Bondi?

Milad Haghani

Australia is reeling from the worst terrorist attack on home soil. Could it have been prevented?

Greg Barton

Bondi attack came after huge increase in online antisemitism: research

Matteo Vergani

Streetsblog Chicago, 15.12.2025

What police had to do during the chaos of Bondi – and what comes next

Terry Goldsworthy

Ride e-scooters, do crime? U. of I. report blames the devices for spikes in illegal activity, but raises “correlation vs. causation” concerns.

John Greenfield

Newsroom | UCLA, 15.12.2025

A ‘positive school climate’ can adversely affect some victims of bullying and violence

Mary Braswell

EurekAlert!, 15.12.2025

“It happens more than you think”: New research examines sexual violence in later life

George Mason University

New York Times, 15.12.2025

What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Person of Interest’?

Shaila Dewan

The Guardian, 15.12.2025

‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia

Mélissa Cornet

Why can someone in suburban Sydney own 6 guns legally? New laws might change that

Suzanna Fay

Getting peace right: Why justice needs to be baked into ceasefire agreements – including Ukraine’s

Valerie Morkevicius

EurekAlert!, 15.12.2025

Familial patterns in criminal conviction risk observed among individuals with ADHD

Elsevier

Epstein’s victims deserve more attention than his ‘client list’

Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin

Reuters, 15.12.2025

Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue

Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham

The Atlantic, 15.12.2025

The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach

David Frum

The Conversation, 16.12.2025

What makes people welcome or reject refugees? What research in Germany reveals

Tobias Hillenbrand

After mass violence, trauma spreads socially. Here are 3 ways you can help reduce it

Tara-Lyn Camilleri

Newswise, 16.12.2025

Legal Sports Betting Linked to Sharp Increases in Violent Crime, Study Finds

University of Michigan

EurekAlert!, 16.12.2025

Study puts spotlight on assessment tool used to predict deadly domestic abuse

Swansea University

The Conversation, 16.12.2025

How rogue nations are capitalizing on gaps in crypto regulation to finance weapons programs

Nolan Fahrenkopf

New York Times, 16.12.2025

Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich

David Enrich, Steve Eder, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Matthew Goldstein

This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world

Ian Kemish, Jasmina Joldić

School shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of prevention

James Densley

EurekAlert!, 17.12.2025

Could police crackdowns actually help criminal networks?

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Police1, 17.12.2025

Police Training: Can VR training create real stress for real-world police decisions?

The #iwasfifteen hashtag and ongoing Epstein coverage show how traffickers exploit the vulnerabilities of teens and tweens

Anne P. DePrince

What has — and hasn’t — changed in the way news addresses sexual violence

Tuğçe Ellialtı-Köse, Sami Falkenstein

AI tools are being used to subject women in public life to online violence

Julie Posetti, Kaylee Williams, Lea Hellmueller

Which countries people are fleeing from – and why

Sanwal Hussain

There’s little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings

Emily Greene-Colozzi

After Canada legalized cannabis, police caught more drunk drivers

Michael J. Armstrong

EurekAlert!, 18.12.2025

Scientists unravel neural networks that guide guilt and shame-driven behaviors

eLife

How misreading Google Trends is fuelling Bondi attack conspiracy theories

Jacques Raubenheimer

Why public views of terrorism don’t match the evidence, and what the government needs to do to keep people safe

Sara Fregonese, Paul Simpson